Mural Review

Well, I'm having trouble updating my website...and the entire murals section is missing.  SO...here are some pics of a few of my favorites.

Baby Jungle Mural

Well, jobs don't get much better than this!  Welcome Baby Zoe, born 5/11/11

check out this article in the STudio City Patch

http://studiocity.patch.com/articles/studio-city-pair-grow-tree-people-street-care-event

Murals in Action

These are great pics, of the murals in action.  Our first Carpenter Charter Elementary School Earth Day fair was really fun, simple and successful.  Million trees LA gave out free shade trees, we exchanged fruit, heal the bay came, recycling, 

tie die, paper making, trading post, battery and 
light bulb recycle.  Go Green Team! 

Diversity

With all the rain, I got it done, probably good... so that I didn't over work the darn thing.  Although.... should I put the names of the fruit in the ground? AND, are the sun rays in the right places? Or is it done.  Someone, stop me. Please.

Illustration Friday- STIR

Despite everyone's warnings,
Mel decided to see what would happen if she did STIR the pot.

Not quite ripe, but getting there...fruit tree mural

Work in progress on the Fruit Tree Mural....

The best part about the mural is that Sunny and I get to have lunch together.

Illustration Friday- SWARM

Beatrice's new fashions were not only cute, but "swarm" too.

Illustration Friday

photosynthesis

Work has begun on the science mural at Carpenter!  Can you guess what it's about?  Not done yet, but I love how it's turning out that I couldn't wait to post it. 

Blank Walls

My friend Mary gave me this card last night.  She is so thoughtful.  It really made me smile to see this blank wall and what we created together.  Thanks Mary!  Click here to see what I'm talking about.
Carpenter Garden

Illustration Friday-SWEATER

This little sketch is from my pregnancy journal when I was pregnant with my first daughter.
 I drew sketch journals for each of the girls.
You can view more of them here
40 drawn weeks

Home and City Mural

home

city

Really fun new murals at Sunnyside Sherman Oaks, or as we like to call it.  Sunnyside UP!

city

I love to make murals interactive, that help create  space that emphasizes imaginative play.  The city was super fun to do and has an "L" train like Chicago with lots of shapes and colors all condensed into a big bright beautiful city.

Illustration Friday-REVERSE

Reverse

Reverse is such an appropriate word to explain my Mom's Alzheimer's.  I feel as if she is going in reverse,  and also that we have reversed roles.  So here is a reflection of me getting my hair braided by my Mom when I was little as I am doing her hair and my own little girl with her hair braided too.

Fruit Tree Hands Mural sketch

Coming to a school near you!

New early morning sketches.

New sketches...

bristol board with grey marker

not sure, how to continue...

Illustration Friday- chicken

peggy days: Deja Vu for Illustration Friday

This weeks Illustration Friday word was.  Deja Vu, I've posted it here and also on my blog about my alzheimer's blog...because dealing with alzheimer's is certainly a sense of deja vu in hyper mode.

peggy days: Deja Vu for Illustration Friday

Jungle mural sketch

Nursery- Jungle 

Pink Raincoat

Don't you just wish you could spend the whole day doing this?

Pomegranate Painting

Painting Pomegranates, is just too much fun to say, so when my friend Denise Doyen and wonderful writer commissioned a pomegranate painting from me, I was very happy to do so.  What a great assignment. She sent me this photo and a nice note about how much she enjoyed it.  Check out her book
Once Upon a Twice, you'll love it.

Sunnyside UP

Working on the farm mural at Sunnyside.
p.s. the Silo is actually a rusty old billboard post.

then suddenly a crocodile came up and out of the grass and into the pirate ship ocean sky filled with sea stars!

I'm back on blogger!

Facebook, websites, yahhoo, twitter and blogs oh my! When is there time to paint? It's hard to focus, but there is so much I want to share, and document.  And so much community and interaction with people that I seek and need as an artist and as a stay at home mom so....I'm back on blogger Yep, I think this is a better place to be.  More community, more interaction, more comments and more fun! What's the point of having a blog, if not to share it and be part of the blogging community.

New Blog

I've moved this blog over to my website, please visit.
www.loiskeller.com

I'm sure there is a way to link the two, and I tried to do it...
but pencil and paper is more my head.

An Illustrated Blog. by Lois Keller

Bee Sketch

caution fire

blog demise

I thought I was so savvy with my new website I made myself on my mac. Ugh, having a hard time updating it all the time, hence the free space between March and August. This is where I am now....here, awake, grateful.

Agent for a Day

Anyone interested in children's book publishing should take a look at this crazy contest by Nathan Bransford!

Third Street Mural- Los Angeles

This one is 80' long!!! It really transformed the playground for the kinder area. Thanks to Dina who made it all possible. She is awesome.

Illustration Friday- Time

This one if for Penelope. I felt the same way she does now and did this sketch while I was waiting for my first baby girl to be born in Feb. 2003.

Inauguration Day